Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair: Poems
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When I left home I took only what I could carry...
What will you bring with you down the path, through the hills and into the woods? Fragments, stories, living things? Echoes of the past, promises for the future?
In fifty new and collected poems, Marisca Pichette celebrates myth, folklore, and memory. Her poe
Marisca Pichette
Marisca Pichette works in speculative and literary fiction, poetry, and essay. Her writing investigates queerness and marginalized identity, often involving monsters. She is represented by Amy Collins.
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Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair - Marisca Pichette
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The poems of Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair transport us from dream to magic to grotesquerie
with exquisite attentiveness. Whether exploring the barnacled, psychological depths of The Unlocking Room
or tracking the transformation of Rapunzel’s hair into light-seeking fungi, Pichette’s poems are steeped in the rich cross-pollination of the mythic and environmental. A luminous debut.
—Katherine Larson, award-winning author of Radial Symmetry.
Every one of Marisca's poems is imbued with a wild fairytale magic: sometimes dark, others whimsical, but never once failing to grab you by the heartstrings. In this miraculous book of speculative poetry, moths dance with moss and memories, while sirens sing seaweed-tangled tales that will linger past the last poem.
—Avra Margariti, author of The Saint of Witches
Pichette's River in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair has the lyrical timelessness of whale songs; it is the effortless drift and gentle, yet striking, beauty of jellyfish; the heartrending notes of a ballad; the curtain-drop upon the conclusion of a tragedy, with the passionate applause still ringing in our ears and the sharp pain of our palms lingering, itching; and it is a walk down a desolate, dimly lit street, with a dying candle held between our hands."
—Ai Jiang, author of Linghun.
Simultaneously mythic and intimate, Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair initiates you into a world of mycelial princesses and glass slipper urns, as delicate as it is sinister, as grotesque as it is full of grace. The waters of Marisca Pichette’s debut are pearl-encrusted, dark with seaweed, host to a whole ecosystem of mysterious denizens. The reward for plunging in is mouthwatering language, irresistible rhythm, and that deep full-bodied chill that all good poetry blooms in us.
—Sienna Tristen, author of The Heretic's Guide to Homecoming and hortus animarum: a new herbal for the queer heart
Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair
Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair
Poems
Marisca Pichette
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First Printing, 2023
Cover Art by Yuumei
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ISBN 978-1-958121-14-6 (paperback)
ISBN: 978-1-958121-15-3 (epub)
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